Pocketlang is a small (~3000 semicolons) and fast functional language written in C. It’s syntactically similar to Ruby and it can be learned within 15 minutes. Including the compiler, bytecode VM and runtime, it’s a standalone executable with zero external dependencies just as it’s self descriptive name. The pocketlang VM can be embedded in another hosting program very easily.
The language is written using Wren Language and their wonderful book Crafting Interpreters as a reference.
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It looks nice, but really not similar to Ruby. All of the nice features of Ruby is missing. The postfixed conditionals. The enumerable and enumerator classes.
The Ruby benchmarks is also clearly written by someone who hasn’t coded Ruby before.
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If you were wanting something similar to Ruby, why not just go with Crystal?
Considering that I have never used either Ruby or Crystal, I’m not sure what the +/- are… 
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PocketLang is a small, fast and friendly language for scripting and embedding. #
With mixed syntax of ruby and python, that can be learned in less than an hour, and it’s easy to embed into another application for scripting.
Pocketlag Docs
Perhaps it will be convenient in its time and a right place.
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Crystal isn’t an embeddable scripting language from what I’ve seen though?
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